Whether Labor supported the establishment of this tribunal - following the outcry over the earlier 42% proposed pay hike - is irrelevant.

What is relevant, Jarrod, is that you are accepting a 28% pay hike - taking your package to $310k - at a time when you are asking teachers to deal with increases of one tenth of that.

Mark Furler is APN Australian Regional Media's group digital editor and former editor-in-chief of the Sunshine Coast Daily. He has been a journalist on the Sunshine Coast for more than 25 years and has won numerous awards including PANPA Newspaper of the Year.